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Cave Temples of Dunhuang

Carved by hand out of a cliff face in northwestern China, the Cave Temples of Dunhuang contain the world’s largest collection of Buddhist art. Inside are 500,000 square feet of colorful wall paintings and 2,000 painted clay sculptures. Cave 17, known as the Library Cave, once housed nearly 50,000 ancient manuscripts, including the world’s oldest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra.

The Getty Conservation Institute has been working with the Dunhuang Academy for 26 years to study and help preserve the caves’ precious wall paintings.
Treasures from this UNESCO World Heritage site are coming to the Getty in May 2016 for the exhibition Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road, which will also feature life-size, walk-in recreations of three caves hand-painted by artists from Dunhuang.

More facty goodness → 14 Fascinating Facts about the Cave Temples of Dunhuang

Interior and sculpture of a bodhisattva in Cave 275; Nine-story temple enclosing Cave 96; Interior of Cave 85; and South wall of Cave 320, depiction of the Aparimitāyus Sutra, all © The Dunhuang Academy. Detail from a wall painting of musicians in Cave 85. Photo: Lori Wong. © J. Paul Getty Trust, reproduced with permission of the Dunhuang Academy

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Shirley Clarke’s “Ornette made in America”

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Ornette Coleman
Ornette: Made in America | 1985

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Groove diggers in Leningrad. (Excerpt from Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More)

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Ornette Coleman - Buddha Blues

This appears to be Coleman's only recorded use of the suona, a kind of wooden oboe with a distinctive loud and high-pitched sound. An important folk instrume...

Suona（嗩吶）is a haunting instrument. While in some occasions it is indeed used in auspicious ceremonies in China, from my own experience it’s always related to death. Ornette Coleman explored the precarious line between life and death with this strange instrument, creating a peculiar timbre of the suona that I would have never expected before.

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A great book about artists struggling, and yet thriving in the USSR. Akhmatova’s quote cited in this book sums up the gist of the book perfectly “ you who remained there to perish, the desired messengers not arriving, only the charming dance and the chorus, of the long white night.”

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A 70-minute pre-lecture injection of spiritual power. McCoy Tyner’s quadruple espression

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Great photograph of Miles Davis playing Wayne Shorter’s tenor sax, Milan, 1964.

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Rare photo

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Mccoy Tyner and his thundering left hand.

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the tree itself is dead, yet life is still emanated from its posture.(A Toppled Tree in Hampstead Heath)

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